Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 571 638
Rank change year-on-year -21 +67 -18
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 57 141 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the General category 0.16% 0.40% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 24 47 106
10th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £57,988
25th Percentile £67,000 £70,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,800 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +7.75% +12.58%
75th Percentile £98,750 £122,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £118,750 £125,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £85,800 £70,576
% change year-on-year +4.90% +21.57% +17.63%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 36,340 35,328 41,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.43% 67.38% 61.58%
Number of salaries quoted 19,648 15,872 31,046
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £27,965
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.25% -7.62%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -13 56 £80,000 -5.88% 11
London +3 55 £80,000 -3.03% 9
Work from Home +52 9 £112,500 +18.88% 4
UK excluding London -9 2 £90,000 +4.90% 9
North of England +4 1 - -
North East -2 1 - -
Scotland -14 1 £90,000 -28.00% 2

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.51%) SAS
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.75%) Misys Opics
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 35 (61.40%) Azure
2 32 (56.14%) AWS
2 32 (56.14%) GCP
3 5 (8.77%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.77%) Snowflake
4 4 (7.02%) Alation
4 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.02%) Cloud Composer
4 4 (7.02%) GitHub
5 3 (5.26%) PaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Apigee
6 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) BGP
1 2 (3.51%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (3.51%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (3.51%) Firewall
1 2 (3.51%) LAN
1 2 (3.51%) OSPF
1 2 (3.51%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.51%) VoIP
1 2 (3.51%) VPN
1 2 (3.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (52.63%) Data Lake
1 30 (52.63%) Metadata
2 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.77%) Power BI
2 5 (8.77%) Tableau
3 4 (7.02%) BigQuery
3 4 (7.02%) DataStage
3 4 (7.02%) QlikView
4 1 (1.75%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.75%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) ER Studio
1 4 (7.02%) ERwin
1 4 (7.02%) PowerDesigner
General
1 48 (84.21%) Banking
2 46 (80.70%) Finance
3 32 (56.14%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (45.61%) Financial Institution
4 26 (45.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
6 6 (10.53%) Retail
7 1 (1.75%) German Language
7 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (54.39%) Architect
2 30 (52.63%) Data Architect
3 7 (12.28%) Analyst
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
4 5 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Business Change Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Business Change Business Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) GCP Architect
5 4 (7.02%) GCP Data Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Lead
5 4 (7.02%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
5 4 (7.02%) Transformation Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.51%) IT Auditor
7 2 (3.51%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) .NET
2 2 (3.51%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.51%) Spring
2 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
1 4 (7.02%) Reinsurance
2 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.75%) IVR
3 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (59.65%) Agile
2 32 (56.14%) Data Modelling
3 31 (54.39%) Data Management
3 31 (54.39%) Migration
4 30 (52.63%) Data Architecture
4 30 (52.63%) Data Strategy
4 30 (52.63%) Metadata Management
5 27 (47.37%) Commercialisation
6 26 (45.61%) Asset Management
6 26 (45.61%) Business Development
6 26 (45.61%) Cost Management
6 26 (45.61%) Data Migration
6 26 (45.61%) Data Privacy
6 26 (45.61%) Innovative Thinking
6 26 (45.61%) Logical Data Model
6 26 (45.61%) Physical Data Model
7 11 (19.30%) Decision-Making
8 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
9 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (14.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.28%) SQL
2 5 (8.77%) Java
3 4 (7.02%) C#
4 2 (3.51%) Python
5 1 (1.75%) Go
5 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.75%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (52.63%) Azure Certification
2 26 (45.61%) AWS Certification
3 11 (19.30%) Degree
4 5 (8.77%) Master's Degree
5 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (7.02%) DBS Check
6 2 (3.51%) CCNP
6 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Terraform
2 2 (3.51%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 28 (49.12%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Databricks
3 4 (7.02%) Google
3 4 (7.02%) IBM
3 4 (7.02%) Informatica
4 2 (3.51%) Cisco
4 2 (3.51%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.51%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (1.75%) Qualtrics